Sunday, January 29, 2017

Kasparov vs Karpov, 24th Game of 1985 World Championship Match




This is the twelvth game featured in Raymond Keene's book Duels Of The Mind : The Twelve Best Games of Chess.

Bobby Fischer (White) vs Boris Spassky (Black), 6th Game, Reykjavik 1972 World Championship Match




This is the eleventh game featured in Raymond Keene's book Duels Of The Mind : The Twelve Best Games of Chess.

Boris Spassky vs Bent Larsen, Belgrade 1970




This is the tenth game featured in Raymond Keene's book Duels Of The Mind : The Twelve Best Games of Chess.

Botvinnink vs Capablanca, Avro (Rotterdam) 1938




This is the ninth game featured in Raymond Keene's book Duels Of The Mind : The Twelve Best Games of Chess.

Immortal Zugzuwang Game - Aron Nimzowitsch vs Fritz Samisch, Copenhagen 1923




This is the eighth game featured in Raymond Keene's book Duels Of The Mind : The Twelve Best Games of Chess.

Alexander Alekhine vs Efim Bogoljubov, Hastings 1922




This is the seventh game featured in Raymond Keene's book Duels Of The Mind : The Twelve Best Games of Chess.

Pillsbury vs Lasker, St Petresburg 1896




This is the fifth game featured in Raymond Keene's book Duels Of The Mind : The Twelve Best Games of Chess.

William Steinitz vs Mikhail Chigorin, 4th Game, World Chess Chamoionship Havana 1892




This is fourth game featured in Raymond Keene's book Duels Of The Mind : The Twelve Best Games of Chess.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Became Runner Up in Bob Burger Open at MIC

It was a 5 round g/45 one day tournament. And after many months or even years, I have put up a good show by winning 4 out of 5 games. In the process I became runner and will some money I guess. Here are the games, round by round. As a result my USCF rating jumped from 1974 to 2018. Here are the standings -

http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201701079912